Notre Dame Academy grad shot, killed

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — A former graduate of Toledo’s Notre Dame Academy was found dead along with her ex-husband in the driveway of her former husband’s home in Bloomfield Township, Mich., a victim of an apparent murder-suicide, police said Wednesday.

Susan Pawlecki Jarrell, 46, of Rochester Hills, was found dead inside a vehicle at 8:04 p.m. Tuesday. Her ex-husband, Kenneth Jarrell, 56, was found dead next to the vehicle.

Lt. Phil Langmeyer, an investigator with the Bloomfield Township Police Department, said a long gun used in the shooting was recovered; he would not elaborate on the type of gun. Lieutenant Langmeyer also declined to say how many shots struck Ms. Pawlecki Jarrell.

He said the case remains open but the incident was being investigated as a murder-suicide.

An autopsy was performed Wednesday by the Oakland County Medical Examiner’s Office, but the results were not available, Lieutenant Langmeyer said.

Ms. Pawlecki Jarrell was a 1985 graduate of the all-girls high school and was a class president, school spokesman Gail Christie said.

The Detroit Free Press said Ms. Pawlecki Jarrell taught French for the Rochester Community Schools’ Stoney Creek High School and Hart Middle School.

Lieutenant Langmeyer said the Jarrells had recently divorced and the couple’s three school-aged children were living with Ms. Pawlecki Jarrell.

Police said the children, who were not at the scene when the shootings occurred, were in the care of relatives.

Bloomfield Hills is about 80 miles north of Toledo.

— Jim Sielicki